Automation Proximity Switches

Modular Automation Allows for Food Manufacturing Flexibility

The board of directors for Denmark-based dairy Arla Foods has spent a good deal of the spring deliberating ongoing consolidations that are bringing greater capacities to larger plants.

"To avoid empty plants a few years down the line, we have to react now," said executive vice president Jais Valeur, commenting in April on a small plant closing. "If we don't, production costs will be higher and the milk price paid to our owners will fall."

Another Arla executive has spent years improving the company's ability to adapt to changing economic, manufacturing and customer requirements. "As time goes on, we have found that we have to produce more orders and handle more and different kinds of product and packaging requirements for our customers," says Arne Svendsen, Arla's director of global manufacturing information technology.

"Customers like Starbucks or the Walmarts and Tescos will reject any product that does not deliver the right, consistent quality every time," he says. "And they want their deliveries when and where they want them. These are fair requirements and part of the supply chain game."

In food & beverage processing these days, flexibility wrestles with consistency at every turn. From meeting supply chain needs to modifying production lines to adapting recipes based on changing raw materials -- from fruit to cheese, in Arla's case – you gotta stay flexible. That can be especially difficult in a biological process, such as cheese-making. "We don't produce exactly the same thing every time as if we were building cars," says Svendsen. Even so, "tolerances for variation today are much more narrow than they were even a few years ago." His global team is applying data-driven systems to stabilize the vagaries of man, machine and Mother Nature herself.

And that's why, Svendsen says, "flexibility to us also means having a standard MES [manufacturing execution system] platform with a standard interface to SAP." Since 2002, a "One Arla" company initiative led the company to standardize on SAP ( www.SAP.com ) enterprise software. More recently, the company standardized its plant information systems on MES software from Wonderware ( www.wonderware.com ) — with installs at 35 plants of a total 65 in the last six years, with more to come.

Having a standard MES with standard modules for recipe-handing, quality management and data collection, among other functions, is "one of our strongest weapons in staying competitive," Svendsen says. Data coming up from the process lets the company access the data needed to get a "crystal clear picture of variability, yield and performance across every site," he says, using automated, aggregated overall equipment effectiveness readings in real time. The same data contribute to key performance indicators from the plant to the corporate office.

Sensor – E2E-X10MY1 proximity switch Ohmic dragon shape – E2E ...

Brand: It is continued that rich

Name: Sensor – E2E-X10MY1 proximity switch Ohmic dragon shape – E2E-X10MY1

Type: Sensor – E2E-X10MY1 proximity switch Ohmic dragon shape – E2E-X10MY1

About products:

The products are detailed:

Measure the distance: 10mm± 10%
Presume the distance: 0~8mm
Output current: Direct-flow Line two 100mA direct-flow three wire systems and two-wire systems of the exchange: 300mA
Reply efficiency: Direct-flow 200HZ exchanges 20HZ
Work environment: -In 20 to +60 temperature ranges
The standard measures things: 18181mm (iron)

The proximity switch sensor is mainly made up of reaction type, photoelectricity type, static type, supersonic wave type, magnetic force type,etc.. Do not need rub check target to measure for the purpose, reach and transfer to measuring target’s mobile information and information present to an electric signal, in changing and trying the way for the detection of the electric signal, way of the eddy current produced in the detection target’s metal including utilizing electromagnetic induction to cause, catch way, favourable stone and way to guide switch in which the capacity of the electric signal that is close to causing of examining the body changes. Measure and use the switch according to the non-contact type position of IEC60947-5-2, detect in the sensor the products of the object are ” proximity switches ” in contactless way .

1,Whether detection has products packing box to pack on the line to produce, measure the part of the existence products.
2,Measure the stop, start of the lift, lifting appliance, pass the position; The position that measures vehicle, prevents two objects from meeting and measuring, the mechanical setting position of monitoring, move the limiting position of the machine or part, measure the stop position turned round, find the air cylinder or inner piston of hydraulic cylinder moves the position.

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